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单词 mamenchisaurus
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Mamenchisaurusn.

Brit. /məmɛŋkɪˈsɔːrəs/, U.S. /məˌmɛŋkiˈsɔrəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Mamenchisaurus.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Mamenchisaurus, genus name (C. C. Young 1954, in Acta Palaentol. Sinica 2 356) < Chinese Mǎménqī (also transliterated Mamenchi ), the name of a place in the Yibin region of Sichuan province, China, where fossil remains were found + -saurus -saurus comb. form.
Palaeontology.
A Chinese genus of sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic period, characterized by exceptionally long necks and related to the diplodocids, though now usually placed in a separate family; a dinosaur of this genus.
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Mamenchisaurus1954
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1954 Scientia Sinica 3 501 The head of Mamenchisaurus is most probably more like Diplodocus rather than Helopus.
1985 N.Y. Times 9 Oct. 2/3 (caption) A Mamenchisaurus dinosaur, stretching 72 feet from top to tail, being assembled yesterday at American Museum of Natural History.
1993 Canad. Living June 121/2 About 60 skeletons, including a 25-metre-long skeleton of a Mamenchisaurus, which would have weighed 36 tonnes in its prime.
1997 J. S. McIntosh in P. J. Currie & K. Padian Encycl. Dinosaurs 657/2 The recent discovery of a partial skull with broad camarasaur-like teeth and an associated neck that appears to belong to Mamenchisaurus indicates that this animal apparently diverged from the diplodocid line before the development of the slender peg teeth.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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